John's expertise is building HR departments and enterprise-wide talent initiatives that support and drive high growth businesses. His background spans HR leadership, consulting and general management roles at Fortune 500 companies and smaller VC or PE-backed organizations ranging from $25M to $2B in revenue and headcounts ranging from less than 100 employees to over 15K. John has held numerous HR roles of increasing responsibility across a diverse set of companies and industries (financial services, life sciences, and tech startups) giving him both a breadth and depth of experience unique in the HR space. He has led the people function at multiple scale-ups as well as owned the talent acquisition and HR transformation functions at best-in-class financial firms. He is a former naval officer with 10 years of active duty experience including IT management aboard technologically advanced warships and combat deployments as a member of various special ops units. His military career was profiled in the Top 10 LA Times bestseller "In the Shadow of Greatness". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_GreatnessJohn holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.